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Hundreds of people poured into the streets of downtown Toronto on Saturday to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s ban on Muslims and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Canadians have been vocal in taking a stand against Trump’s racist regulations, and are calling for the Canadian government to echo this sentiment.

Toronto’s Feb. 4 protest ran from the U.S Consulate in downtown Toronto to the Yonge and Dundas corridor a few blocks away. The crowd repeated chants asking to “Free Yemen”, as well as Syria, Iraq, and other countries. “No ban, no wall” was heard from the crowd’s microphones.

On Jan. 27, Trump signed an executive order which banned citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the US. This has since been blocked temporarily by a federal court, but people across the world continue to fight Islamophobic and xenophobic views.